Incorporating Spatial Structures in Ecological Inference: An Information Theory Approach
This paper introduces an Information Theory-based method for modeling economic aggregates and estimating their sub-group (sub-area) decomposition when no individual or sub-group data are available. This method offers a flexible framework for modeling the underlying variation in sub-group indicators,...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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MDPI AG
2010-10-01
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Series: | Entropy |
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Online Access: | http://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/12/10/2171/ |